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Genesis 17

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1 Kui Aabram oli üheksakümmend üheksa aastat vana, siis Issand ilmutas ennast Aabramile ja ütles temale: 'Mina olen Kõigeväeline Jumal, käi minu palge ees ja ole vaga!

2 Ma teen lepingu enese ja sinu vahel ja teen sind väga paljuks.'

3 Siis Aabram heitis silmili maha ja Jumal rääkis temaga, öeldes:

4 'See olen mina! Vaata, mu leping sinuga on, et sina saad paljude rahvaste isaks.

5 Sinu nime ei hüüta siis enam Aabramiks, vaid su nimi olgu Aabraham, sest ma teen sind paljude rahvaste isaks!

6 Ma teen sind väga viljakaks ja lasen sind rahvaiks saada, kuningadki põlvnevad sinust.

7 Ma teen lepingu enese ja sinu vahel, ja sinu soo vahel pärast sind, igaveseks lepinguks sugupõlvedele, et ma olen Jumalaks sinule ja su soole pärast sind.

8 Ja ma annan sinule ja su soole pärast sind selle maa, kus sa võõrana elad, kogu Kaananimaa, igaveseks omandiks. Ja mina olen neile Jumalaks!'

9 Ja Jumal ütles Aabrahamile: 'Ja sina pead mu lepingut pidama, sina ja su sugu pärast sind põlvest põlve.

10 See on minu leping minu ja teie ning sinu soo vahel pärast sind, mida te peate pidama: kõik meesterahvad tuleb teil ümber lõigata!

11 Te peate oma eesnaha liha ümber lõikama ja see olgu minu ja teie vahelise lepingu märgiks.

12 Kaheksapäevastena tuleb teil ümber lõigata kõik teie meesterahvad põlvkondade viisi, olgu peres sündinud, olgu raha eest ostetud ükskõik missuguselt võõralt, kes sinu soost ei ole,

13 kindlasti tuleb ümber lõigata niihästi su peres sündinu kui su raha eest ostetu. Minu leping peab teie ihu küljes olema igavese lepinguna!

14 Aga eesnahaga meesterahvas, kelle eesnaha liha ei ole ümber lõigatud, tuleb hävitada oma rahva seast: ta on tühistanud minu lepingu!'

15 Ja Jumal ütles Aabrahamile: 'Saaraid, oma naist, ära hüüa enam Saaraiks, vaid tema nimi olgu Saara!

16 Ma õnnistan teda ja annan ka temalt sulle poja. Ma õnnistan teda nõnda, et ta saab rahvaiks, rahvaste kuningadki põlvnevad temast.'

17 Siis Aabraham heitis silmili maha, naeris ja ütles oma südames: 'Kas peaks saja-aastasele poeg sündima? Või peaks üheksakümneaastane Saara sünnitama?'

18 Ja Aabraham ütles Jumalale: 'Kui ainult Ismaelgi sinu ees jääks elama!'

19 Siis ütles Jumal: 'Siiski, su naine Saara sünnitab sulle poja ja sa pead panema temale nimeks Iisak. Ja ma teen temaga lepingu, igaveseks lepinguks tema soole pärast teda.

20 Aga ka Ismaeli pärast ma olen sind kuulnud. Vaata, ma õnnistan teda ja teen ta viljakaks ning väga arvurikkaks. Temast sünnib kaksteist vürsti ja ma teen ta suureks rahvaks.

21 Kuid oma lepingu teen ma Iisakiga, kelle Saara sulle sünnitab tuleval aastal selsamal ajal.'

22 Kui Jumal oli lõpetanud kõneluse Aabrahamiga, siis ta läks tema juurest üles.

23 Ja Aabraham võttis oma poja Ismaeli ja kõik oma peres sündinud, ja kõik raha eest ostetud, kõik meesterahvad Aabrahami pere inimeste hulgast, ja lõikas ümber nende eesnaha liha, otse selsamal päeval, nõnda nagu Jumal teda oli käskinud.

24 Aabraham oli üheksakümmend üheksa aastat vana, kui ta eesnaha liha ümber lõigati.

25 Ja Ismael, tema poeg, oli kolmteist aastat vana, kui ta eesnaha liha ümber lõigati.

26 Otse selsamal päeval lõigati ümber Aabraham ja tema poeg Ismael;

27 ja kõik ta pere mehed, peres sündinud ja võõrastelt raha eest ostetud, lõigati ümber koos temaga.

   

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9659. 'And there shall be eight boards and their bases [made] from silver' means support in every respect from good and through truth that springs from good. This is clear from the meaning of 'eight' as what is so in every respect, dealt with below; from the meaning of 'boards' as good that lends support, dealt with in 9634; and from the meaning of 'bases [made] from silver' as support provided through truth from good, dealt with in 9643.

[2] 'Eight' means in every respect because this number has the same meaning as two and four, being the product of these when multiplied together. 'Two' and 'four' mean being joined together, completely so, 5194, 8423, 8877, and consequently also mean what is complete, 9103, and therefore what is so in every respect; for what exists in completeness does so in every respect. Another reason why 'eight' means what exists in completeness and in every respect is that since 'a week' means a whole period from beginning to end, 2044, 3845, 'the eighth day' means a complete state, from which a new beginning then commences. This explains why males had to be circumcised on the eighth day, Genesis 17:12; 21:4, for circumcision was a sign of purification from foul kinds of love by means of the truth of faith, 2039, 2046 (end), 2799, 3412, 3413, 4462. The foreskin corresponded to the defilement of good by those kinds of love, 4462, 7045, 7225, and the knife of flint with which circumcision was carried out was a sign of the truth of faith by means of which purification was accomplished, 2039 (end), 2046 (end), 2799, 7044.

[3] What exists in completeness and in every respect is also meant by 'eight' following 'seven' in Micah,

When Asshur comes into our land and treads our palaces we will set up over him seven shepherds and eight princes of men (homo), and they will feed 1 the land of Asshur with the sword; and he will deliver [us] from Asshur. Micah 5:5-6.

'Asshur' stands for reasoning on the basis of one's own intelligence about the Church's forms of good and its truths. Deliverance totally or in every respect from consequent falsity is meant by 'eight princes of men' who will bring destruction, 'princes of men' being the leading truths that rise out of good.

[4] The fact that 'eight' means completeness and in every respect is also clear from an experience I had involving the admission and reception of some communities into heaven, about which see 2130. I saw as many as twelve communities received first, and after them as many as eight more; for people admitted and received into heaven are those who have been purified from earthly things, that is, from all love of them, and have gone on to receive instruction. The number eight on that occasion was a sign of that which was complete.

[5] 'Eight' has a similar meaning elsewhere in the Word, for example where it says that the portico of the gateway was 'eight cubits' long from the house, and that there were 'eight steps' up to the house, in Ezekiel 40:9, 31, 41. The description there is of the new house, by which the Lord's New Church is meant, truths leading to good and from good back to truths being meant by 'the portico' and 'the steps'.

[6] Anyone who does not know that spiritual realities or real things are implied by the numbers used in the Word cannot possibly see any such reality nor thus anything holy in the measures and numbers where the tabernacle, Solomon's temple, and after these the new house, new temple, and new land in Ezekiel, are described, when yet not a syllable in the Word is devoid of spiritual meaning. Let all who have intelligence weigh up in their mind what the measures and numbers in Chapters 40-48 of Ezekiel really mean, also the measures and numbers in John, at Revelation 21:17, where it says that the angel measured the wall of the new Jerusalem, a hundred and forty-four cubits, and that this measure was that of a man (homo), that is, of an angel, and also in the following, besides many other places,

Let him who has intelligence reckon the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man (homo), that is, its number is six hundred and sixty-six. Revelation 13:18.

For more about all numbers in the Word, that they mean spiritual realities or real things, see 482, 487, 575, 647, 648, 755, 813, 1963, 1988, 2075, 2252, 3252, 4264, 4495, 4670, 5265, 5291, 5335, 5708, 6175, 7973, and places where the specific meaning of certain numbers has been shown.

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1. i.e. destroy

  
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